Radar scans of boat-shaped Turkish mound reveal 'man-made object' with corridors, in possible Noah's Ark find

From the Newshound archive · first published 1 October 2026.

A private research group has announced that ground-penetrating radar scans beneath the Durupınar Formation in eastern Turkey have revealed a large, organised man-made structure — not natural rock — buried inside a 515-foot boat-shaped mound long associated with Noah's Ark. The scans were carried out by engineer Dr Khosrow Bakhtar using his own BakhtarRadar technology; he developed detection systems for the US Air Force, Navy and NORAD over many decades and says the data shows corridors, chambers and hallways within the mound.

The radar signature of the object was reportedly far too strong and too organised to be explained by rock, mudflow or a natural hill.

'It could be a ship. It could be a spaceship,' Bakhtar said, adding only that 'a solid geological mass would not have returned such a strong signature.'